Biography - Steve Putrich

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Title: Biography - Steve Putrich
Photographer: Unknown
Subject Headings: Labor Movements, Manners and Customs - Clothing and Dress, Persons
Condition: Good - taken from a postcard
Description: Steve Putrich, a victim of the Seeberville murder trial. Striker employed at Champion Mine. This man resisted arrest and was shot by deputies in a fight. [Studio portrait of Mr. Putrick dressed in a suit.]
Source of Description: Writing on image [cataloger]
Institution: Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections
Donor: Louis Koepel
Date of Photo: undated
Medium: still image
Color: black and white
Size: 8.5 cm x 13.6 cm
Polarity: Positive
Image No: Acc-400-12-13-1988-001-011-004
Collection Name: Acc. 400 (12-13-1988)
Terms of Use: Rights to reproduce and distribute this image may be restricted. Contact the Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections for further information.
User Comments:
• The resisted arrest" portion of the story is not true. The man was murdered. The men involved in the shooting were not police and Putrich had not broken any laws. How could that be described as an "arrest"? It is sad that fable continues to be promoted."
11/14/2009 7:28:29 AM by Anonymous
• And, again, the men involved were not police and Kalan had not broken any laws that day either. None of the men were police and none of the victims (or others in the boardinghouse) had broken any laws that day.
3/10/2013 11:07:39 AM by Anonymous
• Actually the were not attempting to arrest this man but another man named John Kollan for walking across mine property while on strike. He resisted arrest and was said to have ran into the boarding house. Upon which the Waddell men fired into the house killing two men Putrich and Tijan (spelt various ways)
3/18/2011 8:31:20 AM by Anonymous